Local licensing boards will have to authorize restaurants before they can begin serving alcohol at 10 a.m. on Sundays, according to a recently passed change in the state’s alcohol laws. It is unlikely that restaurants will be able to take advantage of the change this weekend. “It doesn’t make any change immediately or give any immediate permission to restaurants this Sunday,’’ said William Kelley Jr., general consul for the state’s Alcohol Beverages Control Commission. Restaurants must apply for a license to being serving alcohol at 10 a.m.; without one, they cannot serve alcohol until noon.

If the restaurant already has a license to serve alcohol, why not just let them start serving at 10:00 AM on Sundays without having to apply for a new license?

Is this license going to cost money? Will it have to be renewed every year?